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My Mi-24 is next in line to have its non-LEGO cockpit canopies replaced with brick-built ones -not a...

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Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012

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One of the reasons why I used non-LEGO canopies in the first place, rather than the canopies a few...

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The pilot can enter the helicopter through a door. Because there is a step in the side of the...

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Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012

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Building the canopies using bricks means I could actually make them a bit more bulbous than they were.

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Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012

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The gunner, in the front cockpit, enters the aircraft through an upward hinging hatch. This was actually harder to get to work than the pilot's door.

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Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012

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I think it was almost inevitable that, after replacing the non-LEGO cockpit canopy with a proper...

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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One of the tricky things of making these brick-built canopies is allowing them to open. It means...

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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The F-15E in the foreground obviously has a differently shaped canopy than the single-seat F-15C in...

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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My MiG-29 has also received a new brick-built canopy, replacing the older non-LEGO model.

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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While I was making changes for the canopy anyway, I also decided to change a few other small things,...

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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The changes to the canopy required building a new canopy frame, rebuilding the canopy hinge...

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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As part of my ongoing project to replace the non-LEGO cockpit canopies with brick-built ones, I...

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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The constructions of the canopy frame, in particular of the sections that open, involves a lot of...

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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A few months ago I took two pictures of vehicles that I'd built both to minifig scale and to the...

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Uploaded on Jan 12, 2012

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While I was photographing the Emergence vehicles I also remembered that I never actually took a...

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Uploaded on Jan 12, 2012

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When I posted my Land Rover a couple of days ago, I had already thought about adding a figure to go...

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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2012

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My Ford Focus Police car model and the Mercedes Sprinter ambulance. The one thing missing from this...

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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2012

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As you can probably imagine, I've had a lot of fun recreating the colour schemes on these even though it is very parts intensive.

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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2012

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